whenever someone says "im writing my own game engine" im like wow that sounds really cool, i wonder what new ideas they're going to implement in their game engine, new ways of making games, new ways of playing games. etc. and then i look at the screenshots and what they've made looks like this
@jk i want more people making tools to have the confidence to deviate from that even slightly and feel secure in the knowledge that stepping off the path a bit doesn't automatically put them deep in Kai Krause territory
@jplebreton i think a lot of design conservatism is due to fear, maybe in this case the fear of making something less capable or less broadly-applicable than existing systems. the kind of tools that really inspire me usually come from people who have a passion for specifics. not that i think everything should be hyper-opinionated though, but i would be nice to see more things like "normal development tool but with one weird change, and an interesting story about why"
